Company Uusi Maailma DISCO AND DEATH – visual concert

Power ballads accompany the last slow dances in the meadow of death. Company Uusi Maailma’s performers, reinforced with Ukrainian musicians, lead the audience through a distinctive musical microclimate. The original music is strolling visually and progressively beyond the borders of genres. Dance frequency varies from pure beautiful classical ballet to multicolored über-tragic fates. The stage is reversed, feels as if one is peeping into a backroom, afterparty or memorial service. Disco is dying. A nightclub happens.

COMPANY UUSI MAAILMA is a multidisciplinary performing arts group based in Jyväskylä, Central Finland. It is known for its performance concepts that bring together different artistic disciplines and for its site-specific performances. The group’s way of being and creating is strongly visual, physical and often non-verbal. The collective ways of working generate the group’s own aesthetic, a new world. Founded in 2006, Company Uusi Maailma has performed in five countries and has been awarded the Jyväskylä Culture Award and the Central Finland Arts Council’s Award.

DISCO AND DEATH is a performing art production that combines live music, dance and light in a powerful way. The performance is non-verbal and suitable for people of all languages. The venue is Blomstedt hall at Cultural Centre Villa Rana in Jyväskylä.

The performance is made in cooperation with Kulttuuritalo Villa Rana, and is supported by the city of Jyväskylä and the Ministry of Education and Culture.